Russian Boy Is Incarcerated For Trying To Blow Up Virtual Minecraft Building

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A Russian teenager was jailed for five years after he planned to blow up a virtual building of the FSB security agency that was created in the game on computers called Minecraft.



Nikita Uvarov, aged 16, was sentenced, which he will serve in a penal colony by an army court in Siberia on the basis of 'training for terrorist activities' the rights lawyer Pavel Chikov said on Telegram.



Chikov stated that two other defendants were freed from criminal charges and were given suspended sentences for cooperating with investigators.



The hearing was held behind closed doors.



The ruling falls into the larger pattern of the presidency of Vladimir Putin in which young Russians are incarcerated for preemptive and controversial terrorism charges.



Nikita Uvarov (pictured) 16-year-old Nikita Uvarov was sentenced to five years in an penal colony by an army court in Siberia on charges of "training for terrorist activities', rights lawyer Pavel Chikov said



Police discovered messages between Uvarov and two others regarding plans to demolish an FSB building they had created in the block-building game Minecraft (file photo of the game)



In the summer of 2020 Uvarov and two other teenagers were arrested in the Siberian city of Kansk for spreading leaflets in support of an Moscow mathematician and anarchist activist being tried for vandalism.



The trio placed one of the leaflets on a local structure of the FSB. This massive Russian security agency is the successor to the Soviet-era KGB.



Police confiscated their phones and said they found an exchange about plans to blow up an FSB building they created in the popular block-building game Minecraft.



Investigators believe that the three teens were practicing detonating explosives in abandoned buildings and learning how to make their own.



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The initial charges against the teens were more serious for 'participating with a terrorist organization'. However, the case was dropped because of lack of evidence. Minecraft



According to the Novaya Gazeta newspaper's report, Uvarov admitted that he was under pressure from the authorities during the investigation however, he did not deny having plans to explode anything.



He admitted guilt but said that if he was handed real prison time, he would serve it with the confidence of a clean conscience and with dignity'.



'For the last time in this court , I want to say: I am not an armed terrorist,' he declared.



"I just would like to finish my education, obtain an education, and go somewhere far from here do not bother anyone at the special service."



Uvarov (pictured here with his mother Anna) has spoken out about the stress he felt during the investigation, and denied he planned to blow anything up.



Russian opposition figures have condemned the verdict on social media.



'Sick sadists imprison children for playing an activity and they are not allowed to play. Lyubov Sobol, an ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, said on Twitter.



In August 2020, three activists - who were accused of belonging to an anarchist group known as "New Greatness" - were sentenced to jail for allegedly planning to overthrow Putin's administration.



In a case brought by and supported by the FSB Four others were sentenced to suspended sentences.



Seventeen young anti-fascists and anarchists were sentenced in February 2020 to six to 18 years of prison on terror charges.



Arrested in 2017 and the year 2018 Most of the suspects claimed that they were detained with electrodes and beat to confess.